Comments on: HTML5 training: Taking a first look at HTML5

By: James Williamson

James Williamson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:34:08 +0000

Bobby, simply style, and treat them the way you would a DIV tag. If you have IDs in place in your CSS, you can continue to use them. For example, if you replaced with the selector #header would continue to work. Since you can have multiple navs, headers, and footers in your document, using classes or IDs to correctly identify them is fine. You could also simplify your CSS depending upon how you are structuring your page. If you only use one for example, you can drop the ID and simplify your selector to just “header.” It’s less weight on your code and a bit faster. The main thing is to have a consistent strategy in place. Don’t just change the tags to change them, think about why you’re using the new structural elements and then plan your CSS accordingly. The transition might take some time, but eventually it will feel just as natural as what you’re currently doing! Thanks for watching!

By: Chelsea Adams, managing editor

Chelsea Adams, managing editor — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:51:18 +0000

Hi Bobby! We’ve contacted author James Williamson and he will get back to you just as soon as he can.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:18:09 +0000

I can’t find anywhere in your videos on HTML 5 any information regarding the way to style the new tags such as NAV and HEADER. I tried doing your video on converting a traditional document to an html 5 document but changing the names broke the structure of my code in design view within Dreamweaver CS 5.5. The Css has has for instance #nav to set the styling for the div id= “nav” but what is the syntax one would use for styling a tag? Classes and ID’s seem to be made for Divs. I’m by no means a pro at this, far from it. What am I doing wrong if I am to use id and class with the tag?

By: James Willliamson

James Willliamson — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:50:30 +0000

Thanks Marcos!

Any idea for the Mac?

By: marcos

marcos — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:41:09 +0000

James Williamson, as you asked: The smile face is done by holding the left alt key (in pc) and than pressing the number 1 ♥☺☻♥

By: baran

baran — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:52:19 +0000

I think the future is HTML 5 and please cover canvas, Mr. Williamson.

Regards.

By: James Williamson

James Williamson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:24:06 +0000

Hey Jay,
Well….it depends. People are upgrading their browsers at a much faster rate these days, and IE’s market share dominance is trending down. Frankly, the most encouraging thing about HMTL5 adoption is Microsoft’s embrace of it in IE9. While not perfect, IE9 offers very solid HTML5 and CSS3 support. A better way to approach HTML5 is a piece at a time. Take a look at the areas of the specification that are supported now, and adopt what you need out of those areas. I think overall we’re looking at around 2 years before you can totally switch over to HTML5 and perhaps 3 or 4 before certain areas are fully standardized.

By: jay

jay — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:54:04 +0000

When will HTM5 be available on 98% of computers? With people still using IE (pick your version), won’t it be years?

By: Andreas Ostheimer

Andreas Ostheimer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:38:20 +0000

Looking forward to this course which I will definitely check out!

By: James Williamson

James Williamson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:32:01 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Palenoue. Doing something on the Editable Content API would be a good title. Although I can’t be specific about it, we do have some other HTML5 and CSS3 titles on the way.

As for Flash, it’s only a resource hog if it’s poorly planned and scripted. The same as with JavaScript.

Thanks for the feedback guys!!

I’ll be doing a few more HTML5 blog postings soon as well.